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Synonyms for chess
tʃɛschess

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  1. chess, cheat, Bromus secalinusnoun

    weedy annual native to Europe but widely distributed as a weed especially in wheat

    Synonyms:
    cheat, chess game, darnel, rig, cheater, bearded darnel, deceiver, beguiler, tare, trickster, slicker, swindle, cheating

  2. chess, chess gamenoun

    a board game for two players who move their 16 pieces according to specific rules; the object is to checkmate the opponent's king

    Synonyms:
    chess game, cheat

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  1. chaturanga

    indian word for four

    chess board has 64 squares, chaturanga is warrior pose on all fours staff position.

    Submitted by rinat on August 26, 2019  

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  1. List of paraphrases for "chess":

    failures, chessboard, failure

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MD0.0 / 0 votes

  1. CHESS

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How to use chess in a sentence?

  1. Hero David Flink '':

    He got to know me, and eventually we started playing chess, there was nothing that said he had to take an interest in my life, and he did anyhow. And that saved me.

  2. Mike Schur:

    That's a rare thing in Hollywood where you make a request from the people who pay you and they say, 'Sounds good,' we really were able to put all the pieces on the chess board and arrange them exactly the way we wanted, so it was like a control freak's dream.

  3. Dan Sullivan:

    Right now, the Russians are playing chess in the Arctic and our Administration still seems to think it’s tic-tac-toe.

  4. George Bernard Shaw:

    Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever when they are only wasting their time.

  5. Samuel Dewey:

    You're going against an opponent who has almost unlimited resources, house Intelligence's a three-dimensional game of chess.


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